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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2017) by ilugaslifk on Thursday June 01, 2017 @05:56PM (#14465237)
What does "(m/f)" mean? Surely not "male/female"...
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2017) by redsparrow on Friday June 02, 2017 @03:29AM (#14468139)
Yes, it does. That's the norm in Germany because the words (in German) for job titles (eg: software developer) imply a gender. So instead of writing the full job title in both masculine and feminine they just write it once and then put (m/f) afterwards. Obviously it doesn't need to be there when the job title is written in English, but it often is anyway.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2017) by derefr on Friday June 02, 2017 @01:18PM (#14471657)
Interesting; is there a reason it only appeared on the last line here? Was "Software Engineer- Web Frontend" the only noun-phrase that would imply a gender?
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2017) by to3m on Saturday June 03, 2017 @01:03PM (#14477261)
That job is in Germany.